{"id":196523,"date":"2008-04-18T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/18\/pearls-without-swine\/"},"modified":"2008-04-18T05:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T10:01:00","slug":"pearls-without-swine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/18\/pearls-without-swine\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearls Without Swine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the world of neat stuff for the tech geek, we have an entry from the folks at the University of Dayton Research Institute, who have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/news\/publish\/airforce\/Pearl-Like_Coating_from_Oysters_Could_Protect_Aircraft100015558.php\">developed a technique to apply layers of ceramics to metal in the same manner as an oyster creates a pearl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While ceramic coatings are fairly common this is a room temperature normal atmospheric pressure process, and should be effective in reducing wear and corrosion.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that this was driven by a better understanding of the lowly bivalve, which does not extract CaCO<sub>3<\/sub> from seawater, but instead, &#8220;that oysters use blood cells to deposit crystals that form shell and pearl&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the world of neat stuff for the tech geek, we have an entry from the folks at the University of Dayton Research Institute, who have developed a technique to apply layers of ceramics to metal in the same manner as an oyster creates a pearl. While ceramic coatings are fairly common this is a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}